Conservative Party of South Africa

The Conservative Party (KP) was a white nationalist political party in South Africa that was founded in 1982 by Andries Treurnicht. The party was founded by 23 MPs from the National Party who opposed Prime Minister P.W. Botha's reforms to apartheid and power sharing proposals, which they saw as a threat to white minority rule and racial segregation. The party was mostly supported by Afrikaners in the rural heartlands of South Africa, and it became the main opposition party in South Africa in 1987. In 1992, the party opposed the negotiation reforms started by F.W. de Klerk's government. A year later, party leader Clive Derby-Lewis was found guilty of organizing the murder of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Its support declined after the end of majority rule in 1994 and it merged into the Freedom Front Plus in 2004.